ARTWORK | Watercolors | #SWBK

A vector illustration of two closed fists, knuckles towards the screen. The hands are plain white. The knuckles are spattered with blue paint like blood. The letters “SW” are on the right fist, and “BK” are on the left.

Chronic Pain, V

A commissioned piece within the Chronic Pain series, where the commissionee describes their pain to me as if they were a synesthete, like I am. This piece illustrated shoulder pain that manifested as joint pain where "every motion is a sussurus of little indignant eruptions, a Pollock splatterhouse backdrop to the bucolic foreground." The pain across the clavicle was described as "stretched over a rubber band, vibrating from tension and being plucked."

Chronic Pain, VI

A commissioned piece within the Chronic Pain series, where the commissionee describes their pain to me as if they were a synesthete, like I am. This piece illustrates migraines that "stab in right in front of the ears arcing up to the back, and eventually settle with their center of gravity at the base of my skull." The headaches come with an aura described as "spots of nothing with speckles of too-hot colors at the edges."